With the committee room a full house and Obama going all in, the people deserve a straight answer in spades from Senator McCain. Looking flush won't cut it. America needs its hearts won over, not beaten with clubs.

Look, there are two possibilities here. One is that you were actually asking a question because you wanted to know something, which makes no sense because you could have looked up the answer yourself with that device in front of you.

The other, and we all know this is what's happening, is that you were asking what's known as a "rhetorical question". You don't want an answer at all; you're trying to make a point without bothering to do the work of presenting evidence and a reasoned argument.

Astralwand:Take that and the fact that it's a lot harder to control chemical weapons and biological weapons it's pretty clear why we would rather be bombed and shot.

Clearly the destruction to buildings and infrastructure leading up to the gas attack hasn't deterred Assad. So the outrage now isn't that a lot of civilians are still dying, but that the damage to buildings and infrastructure isn't commensurate? That's a curious threshold.

PainfulItching:Not only that, but in this situation, Assad is threatening his neighbors for no good reason.

If only there was some kind of international political body that was established specifically to respond to such regional conflicts and human rights crises...

Really? People are going to "meh" this? We're debating whether, as a country, we're going to kill people and maybe get our fellow Americans killed, not whether we want to use puce or goldenrod for the next TIPS report cover. Seems like it's kind of important to pay full and complete attention to all the evidence and presentations. McCain is an irresponsible dumbass, bottomline.

Personally, I'm more concerned with the main point of the article -- people's attention spans in the smart-phone era are for shiat. They're becoming more rude and self-centered, as if there were no divider between the web and real life anymore. If they don't get immediate gratification from whom they're with, there's always a website that will tell them anything they want to hear in the moment.

Maybe if there was something worth debating here. Either we're the world's beacon of freedom or we're just another country looking out for ourselves. If we believe in the dignity of man and the rule of law, we are impelled to act in Syria. If we don't care about the use of illegal weapons, then we sit this one out.

It's really as simple as that. It doesn't take 3 hours to make up your mind. Just take the vote and go home.

McCain already had a hard-on for doing in Assad. For him the hearing was just a show. His mind was made up long before the CW attack. That being said he said that he lost "Thousands of dollars" in that game so there is that.

Well, you can't blame him, given how great a Sec. of State Kerry has proven to be. It's not like McCain has any questions worth asking. I mean, look at the long list of countries the State Department has lined up as allies in this strike on Syria. Kerry's got the U.N Security Council convinced and buttoned up. Russia's promised to stay out of it. Britain's got our back, of course, but there was never any question of that. Really what else is there to do but pat Kerry on the back and give him a big thumbs up?